Director: Madison Coffey
Director Of Photography: Josh Herzog
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Producers: Rahel Gebreyes, Gabriela Marie Safa
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Assistant Camera/Camera Operator: Jack Belisle
Assistant Camera/Gaffer: Esteban Veras
Audio: Nicole Maupin
Production Assistant: Rafael Vasquez
Set Designer: Lauren Bahr
Set Design: Assistants Tom Henry, Maggie Fitzpatrick
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Entertainment Editor: Keaton Bell
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Image Courtesy of SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium
Director Of Photography: Josh Herzog
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Producers: Rahel Gebreyes, Gabriela Marie Safa
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Assistant Camera/Camera Operator: Jack Belisle
Assistant Camera/Gaffer: Esteban Veras
Audio: Nicole Maupin
Production Assistant: Rafael Vasquez
Set Designer: Lauren Bahr
Set Design: Assistants Tom Henry, Maggie Fitzpatrick
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Entertainment Editor: Keaton Bell
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Image Courtesy of SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium
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00:00Hi, Vogue. I'm Rachel Zegler.
00:02And I'm Kit Conner.
00:03And this is Off the Cuff.
00:04What was your first impression of me?
00:06My first impression of you was,
00:09I had met with Sam on Zoom about this project.
00:13Sam Gold, our director.
00:14Sam Gold, and then after that I got a DM from you saying,
00:18just a very nice message saying that you were hoping
00:20that we would be able to do it.
00:21And I thought, that's a very nice way of creating contact.
00:25I had known that you were like, probably going to do it.
00:28How did you know that?
00:29Sam told me.
00:30Okay.
00:31And I was like, I'm probably going to do it too.
00:33So that's why I messaged you.
00:35Can you do your best British accent?
00:37Oh, the thing is, when I try, then it's not good.
00:41I don't think. Can you give me something to say?
00:43Hello, I'm Rachel Zegler.
00:45Hello.
00:46It's not bad.
00:47Hello, I'm Rachel Zegler.
00:48It's not bad at all.
00:49No, it's not horrible.
00:51See, don't call me a whore when you say horrible.
00:54Horrible.
00:55Yeah, horrible.
00:56Horrible.
00:57There you go.
00:58All right.
00:59Nice.
01:00All right.
01:01Can you do your best American accent?
01:02He's so good at it, guys.
01:04The wild robot is now in theaters.
01:06Can you say, like, I love being in New York?
01:09New York's quite hard.
01:10I love being in New York.
01:12Yeah.
01:13That's quite hard.
01:14But yeah, because you guys are.
01:16The phrase New York is quite tricky.
01:19New York.
01:20Yeah.
01:21What is the most used app on your phone?
01:23Probably my camera.
01:24Yeah.
01:25You know.
01:26I love to document,
01:27especially me taking pictures of my dog and sending them to you.
01:30Yeah, pretty much.
01:31What is your favorite song right now?
01:33Lilac Wine by the Jeff Buckley version.
01:37Gorgeous.
01:38Yes, Jeff Buckley.
01:39Mudang or pesto?
01:42Oh, is this like the baby hippo or the baby penguin?
01:45What?
01:47What?
01:48I'm going to go with the penguin, pesto.
01:50Mudang is a baby hippo,
01:51and then pesto is this really sweet brown penguin who's adorable.
01:54What is number one on your bucket list?
01:56God, big, hard-hitting questions.
01:58Yeah.
01:59This is a big one.
02:00Things to do before you die.
02:01What's number one?
02:02Things to do before I die.
02:03Open Romeo and Juliet on Broadway.
02:05I think you may get your wish.
02:06Rubbish answer.
02:07I think it might just happen.
02:08Yeah.
02:09Wicked and Gladiator 2 come out on the same night.
02:11Which one are you choosing to see?
02:13Gladiator 2.
02:14I'm also really excited for Wicked.
02:15Yeah, same.
02:16It looks great.
02:17What is your favorite red carpet look ever?
02:19I wore this really beautiful Elie Saab with a veil
02:23to the L.A. premiere of Hunger Games,
02:25and I really, really loved it.
02:27Where's this look from?
02:28That is from Vogue World.
02:31This could be in Romeo and Juliet.
02:32That's a Loewe.
02:34I was one of the first people to wear it off of the runway.
02:37Look at you.
02:38Look at your hair.
02:39Yeah, it was a cool day.
02:42What fashion moment is this?
02:44That's me at the Oscars in Dior.
02:46That's Oscars 2022.
02:48I presented.
02:49That was awesome.
02:50I'm Jacob Belordi, who is 8 feet tall,
02:53and I still only came up to his hip bone.
02:58What about this look?
03:00I have no idea.
03:01This is the Rocketman premiere.
03:03You're such a little baby.
03:05Oh my God, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:07You're just a munchkin.
03:09Is that Bryce Dallas Howard?
03:10Yes, it is.
03:11She played my mother.
03:12Oh, you guys are so cute.
03:14I would have been 15.
03:16You look younger.
03:17Yeah, well, I did.
03:18I was cursed with a baby face.
03:19Okay, where is this look from?
03:21Oh, that's my Met Gala look this year.
03:23That's Michael Kors.
03:24There we are.
03:25Yeah, fun fact about that.
03:27Oh, wow.
03:28Look at that.
03:29Final fitting on my 23rd birthday.
03:31How about this?
03:33That was the British Fashion Awards.
03:35Again, all Loewe.
03:37That was actually possibly going to wear that to Vogue World.
03:41You look gorgeous.
03:43What is this?
03:44It was the Academy Gala last year.
03:47That's a beautiful photo.
03:48Oh, thanks, honey.
03:49Well done, Sarah.
03:51Yeah, well done, Sarah.
03:52That was a fun night.
03:53Which co-worker would you call if there was an emergency?
03:57Rachel.
03:58Rachel Zegler.
03:59I'd answer the phone.
04:00Yeah, you'd answer the phone.
04:01It's whether or not you could help me.
04:02I'm sorry, but do you remember the one time you were like,
04:04yeah, my foot really hurts and I don't have anything,
04:06and I was like, can I send frozen cheese?
04:09No, yeah, and I invited dress for Romeo and Juliet.
04:11Terrible time to hurt yourself, by the way.
04:13I hurt my foot on a ladder.
04:16She offered to send me frozen vegetables so that I could ice my foot,
04:20but then I thought, I'll just go to sleep.
04:23What is a random fact no one would guess about you?
04:26I haven't gotten my eyebrows done since 2021.
04:30Really?
04:31Yeah, I'm like, I look impressed.
04:34But yeah, and I love my eyebrows,
04:36and I never want them to be any thinner than they are already.
04:39What is the lowest note you can hit?
04:42Are we talking about emotionally or are we talking about singing?
04:45I think singing, babe.
04:46Okay, what's the lowest note I can hit?
04:49Go ahead.
04:52Is that a note?
04:54What has been the most rewarding part of your career?
04:58When young Latinas come up to me
05:01and say that they see themselves achieving something in this industry
05:06because of anything I've done.
05:09I've had it a lot at our stage door.
05:11Do you have a favorite Romeo and Juliet adaptation outside of our own?
05:14Romeo and Juliet.
05:17Music by Elton John.
05:19Oh, right, okay.
05:20Have you not seen it?
05:22Classic.
05:23Do you identify more with Maria or Juliet?
05:27I think Juliet's a more universal young girl character.
05:31She is 13, and I'm not.
05:33Maria was 18 when I was 18.
05:35That's when I did the movie.
05:37So I think culturally she kind of comes first.
05:41But it's a lot easier to defend Juliet
05:43than it is to defend some of Maria's choices.
05:46Did you seek advice from anyone while training to become Juliet?
05:49I didn't.
05:50I get nervous to ask people for advice.
05:52I did get a really lovely text from Helen Mirren when she found out.
05:56She was just like,
05:57you are going to be effervescent.
05:59Just be confident and make every choice.
06:02Unsolicited Helen Mirren advice is always appreciated.
06:04Love it.
06:05Do you dress any differently in New York than you do in London?
06:08No, not at all.
06:09Not at all.
06:10I know.
06:11Same Carhartt jacket.
06:12It's the same clothes.
06:13Same one.
06:14Who is your Broadway idol?
06:16Stephen Sondheim.
06:17I got to work with him before he passed away,
06:20and it was one of the greatest opportunities of my life
06:23to know him in his lifetime.
06:25What's the strangest place you've been recognized?
06:28Probably at the urinal.
06:29Yeah.
06:30I had someone stop me for a photo
06:31while I was changing in a bathroom once.
06:33Yeah, good fun.
06:34What is your biggest theater superstition?
06:36The Belasco is haunted.
06:38Say hello to Mr. Belasco when you go into the theater.
06:41His apartment is still upstairs.
06:43Don't be weird.
06:44What has been your most regrettable fashion choice?
06:47I've worn some awful things in the past,
06:50both in my personal life and, you know,
06:53when I first found myself in this industry
06:56and found myself going to things,
06:58I was experimenting, finding myself.
07:02If you could be in any other Shakespearean play,
07:04what would it be?
07:05I would want to be Hamlet in Hamlet.
07:07Would you?
07:08Yeah.
07:09Who has been your favorite love interest to work with?
07:11Ooh, ooh, this is a juicy question.
07:13There's a right answer.
07:14Jo will obviously have a special place in my heart
07:17for many reasons.
07:18The balcony scene is one of my favorite scenes
07:20I've ever been able to play,
07:22and getting to play it with you is always a joy every night.
07:26I've never had a love interest that I wish I had more scenes with,
07:29and this is the first time I get to say that.
07:31Hey, there you go.
07:32This is a lightning round.
07:33Oh, my God.
07:35Movies or TV?
07:37Movies.
07:38Movies.
07:39It's you now.
07:40Oh, London or New York?
07:41New York City.
07:42I'm really struggling.
07:43Yeah.
07:44Spring or fall?
07:45Fall.
07:46Restaurant or takeaway?
07:47Right now, restaurant usually takeaway.
07:48Capulets or Montagues?
07:49Montagues.
07:50Boo.
07:51Poison or dagger?
07:52Dagger.
07:53Window seat or aisle seat?
07:54Aisle seat.
07:55Instagram or TikTok?
07:56Don't have TikTok and I have to go Instagram,
07:58but I would like to say neither.
07:59Tragedy or comedy?
08:00Tragedy.
08:01Roses or lilies?
08:02Roses.
08:0316th century or 21st century?
08:05I mean, like, I'm going to say 16th century,
08:08but I think that's, like, so wanky to say.
08:11I was just born in the wrong generation.
08:13Yes or no?
08:14Yeah.
08:15Vogue, thank you so much for having us.
08:17I'm Rachel Zegler.
08:18I'm Kit Connor.
08:19And this was Off the Cuff.
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